PASSPORT STATUS WEBSITE AND DELAY IN PASSPORT ISSUE
The status at http://passportstatus.nic.in/ was Police verification not received and it remained same for good 7-10 days. Since nobody called so I went to the Police station for its status. For "FILE AAGE BADHAANE", I BRIBED 500 Rs total for 3 files.
Within a week we got a call for Police verification and we bribed 500 Rs again per person e.g. 1500 Rs total. The status of the passport still remained the same at the Passport status website.
During early January CID verification was done and we again bribed the "STANDARD RATE" of 500 Rs/person. So its more than 1000 Rs in bribe only per person. While I did not want to give the money but for my father who is more practical than me.
I checked the Passport Status website everyday in Jan and the status was still same "Police verification not received". My father started to talk of some agents ....It boiled me over ...come on !!! that's it!!! I have already tolerated enough corruption, and going the Agents way is like giving your power to someone and feeding him again and again and going totally blank of the status ...That's when I decided going the RTI way and filing RTI for Passport. I will detail each and every event step by step with brief explanation of what is RTI and how it can help you.
